Food Consumption Patterns Part 2
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Anything Malta is fortifying and ideally mixed with milk<br />
All liquids and gruels should ideally be mixed with milk. This rule even extends to malta.<br />
Energy drinks have aphrodisiacal qualities, give strength and vigor but are dangerous to health<br />
(too invigorating, cause lack of sleep, heart to beat fast)<br />
Rebuilding Juices: Fortified Folk Concoctions<br />
Even more interesting with regard to nutrition is a category of what Haitians refer to as remontan,<br />
“rebuilding,” juices. They are best summed up as fortified folk beverages they include many of<br />
the ingredients seen in main and secondary meals described above. Their exclusion in the freelists<br />
may have to do with the questions being bias by the word “foods” and the fact that these fortified<br />
folk concoctions have a near medicinal status.<br />
Type/name Juice<br />
Spaghetti juice<br />
Breadfruit juice<br />
Beet juice<br />
Manioc juice<br />
Potato juice<br />
Ponch<br />
Coffee<br />
remontan<br />
Beet remontan<br />
Akamien<br />
Table A5-6: Remontan<br />
Ingredients<br />
spaghetti, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, salt (pinch)-cheese (optional)<br />
breadfruit flour, milk, banana, potato, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, salt<br />
(pinch)<br />
beet juice, sugar, carrot, navé, crescent, coconut oil/juice, salt (pinch)<br />
manioc, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon<br />
potato, milk, sugar, carrot, breadfruit, manioc, banana, cheese, papay<br />
egg (local), milk, cheese, banana<br />
coffee, raw liver, coconut oil/juice, egg (local)<br />
beet bagasse, coconut oil/juice, malta<br />
Black beans (loca), cooked beef, carrot, greens, navé, pumpkin, milk, cheese<br />
Beverages/Juice/Remontan Rules<br />
As with foods, local and organic is gets the highest respect for nutritional value. This also applies<br />
to fruits which in the urban environment are most commonly are consumed as juice. It also applies<br />
to local milk—called let bef or cow’s milk--which is only available in the informal sector. Milk<br />
is mixed with anything meant to be fortifying<br />
Peanuts were mentioned by only one of the 50 respondents in the context of formulas for remontan,<br />
making them far more conspicuous in terms of their absence. The point is especially acute in lieu<br />
of 1) the par nutritional excellence in food categories and 2) the fact that peanuts are a veritable<br />
super food….
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